2025 Student Research and Community Engagement Symposium Winners
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Oral Presentations
Undergraduate Winner
- Team: Jesus Santiago & Alejandro Bonilla, Psychology
- Project Title: Using Music Video Storytelling to Prevent Dog Bite Injuries in Young Children
- Faculty Advisor: Elissa Johnson-Green and Jiabin Shen
Graduate Winner
- Alexandria Winstead, Applied Psychology and Prevention Science
- Project Title: Who do they trust to tell? Age-related trends in child sexual abuse disclosure patterns
- Faculty Advisor: Stephanie Block and Yan Wang
Poster Presentations
Undergraduate Winners
- Ian Plourde, Psychology
- Project Title: Operant Laboratory Teaching Tools: A Review of CyberRat, Sniffy the Virtual Rat, and PORTL
- Faculty Advisor: Anita Li
- Marielys Then, Sociology
- Project Title: Race and Compensatory Femininity Among Women Partners of Porn Addicts
- Faculty Advisor: Stephanie Ortiz
Graduate Winner
- Team: Myat Su Tin, Global Studies and Lugyi No, Research and Evaluation in Education聽
- Project Title: Visualizing Hope and Resilience: Analyzing Drawings of High School Students for World's Children Day in Myanmar
- Faculty Advisor: Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Fan Favorite Winners
- Jack Bekampis, English - Theatre Arts
- Project Title: Set design - Peter Gabriel ensemble
- Faculty Advisor: Shelley Barish
- Sohana Hasan, English
- Project Title: Modern Minstrels: State-Sanctioned Blackface Minstrelsy in the 20th Century
- Faculty Advisor: Chad Montrie
Francis College of Engineering
Oral Presentations
Undergraduate Winner
- Dalton Driscoll, Computer Engineering
- Project Title: Smartphone Skin Erythema Imaging
- Faculty Advisor: Walfre Franco
Graduate Winner
- Kedar Bagewadi, Plastics Engineering
- Project Title: An e-textile garment for electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring
- Faculty Advisor: Ramaswamy Nagarajan
Poster Presentations
Undergraduate Winners
Kimberly Thimothee, Mechanical Engineering
- Project Title: Modeling Salt Air for Marine Combustion Applications
- Faculty Advisor: Noah Van Dam
Graduate Winner
- Nicholas Carnes, Mechanical Engineering
- Project Title: Design and Construction of a Compact Radar Range Overhead Gantry System
- Faculty Advisor: Guy DeMartinis and Thomas Horgan
Fan Favorite
- Jonathan Reardon, Mechanical Engineering
- Project Title: Formulating Printable Ceramic Suspensions for High Dielectric Constant Applications
- Faculty Advisor: Christopher Hansen
Kennedy College of Sciences
Oral Presentations
Undergraduate Winners
- Team: Kogouniwa Bennsion and Kavinprasad Kanagaraju, Physics
- Project Title: Analyzing ALEKS Placement Process for Mathematics Course Selection at UMass Lowell
- Faculty Advisor: Matthew Beyranevand
Graduate Winners
- Christopher Morales-Gonzalez, Computer Science
- Project Title: Towards Secure Building Automation: Developing An Innovative Fuzzing Tool
- Faculty Advisor: Xinwen Fu
Poster Presentations
Undergraduate Winners
- Team: Hanna Abu-Zahra, Biology and Lara Serhan, Biology
- Project Title: Breaking the Barrier: Peptide hydrogel demonstrates efficacy against single- and multi-species biofilms
- Faculty Advisor: Maria Velasquez
- Madisyn Herrmann, Biology
- Project Title: Molecular Mechanics of Charge Neutralization Mutations in Cardiac Thin Filament
- Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Moore
Graduate Winner
- Evan Reboli, Organic Chemistry
- Project Title: Ultrasensitiv Detection of HIV-1 p24 Antigen
- Faculty Advisor: Suri Iyer
Fan Favorite Winner
- Ajoke Williams, Chemistry
- Project Title: Highly Sensitive Detection of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Biomarkers Utilizing Multiple-layer Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles
- Faculty Advisor: Suri Iyer
Manning School of Business
Oral Presentations
Undergraduate Winners
- Trevor Tismo, Business Administration, Concentration in Finance & Management
- Project Title: The Effects of NIL on UMass Lowell Athletics
- Faculty Advisor: Elissa Magnant and Rae Mansfield
Graduate Winners
Bruce Lezana, Business Administration
- Project Title: Unpacking Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Configurational Approach
- Faculty Advisor: Sunny Li Sun
Poster Presentations
Undergraduate Winners
Emma Long, Accounting
- Project Title: The Impact of AI on the Accounting Profession
- Faculty Advisor: George Joseph
Graduate Winners
Team: Nainul Arab, Business Analytics, Janani Bhaskar, Business Analytics, and Shreya Singh, Engineering Management
- Project Title: From Data To Dollars - Mobile Price Classification
- Faculty Advisor: Asil Oztekin
Fan Favorite
Haoran Wang, Marketing PhD
- Project Title: A meta-analytic review on the impact of asymmetric channel structure on power exploitation
- Faculty Advisor: Yuerong Liu
Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences
Oral Presentations
Undergraduate Winner
Matthew Ruggiero, Exercise Science
- Project Title: Effects of an Overground-Based Exoskeleton User Training Protocol On Mobility Performance for Untrained Tasks
- Faculty Advisor: Pei-Chun Kao and Yi-Ning Wu
Graduate Winner
Donald Rogers, MPH-Epidemiology
- Project Title: Association Between Psychophysiological Stressors and Allostatic Load Among Older Puerto Rican Adults
- Faculty Advisor: Sabrina Noel and David Cornell
Poster Presentations
Undergraduate Winner
Lauren Latino, Exercise Science-Clinical
- Project Title: Footwear Technology to Enhance Human Performance
- Faculty Advisor: Pei-Chun Kao
Graduate Winner
Team: Hannah Allgood, Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT); Shayla Quill, Clinical Exercise Science; and Nathan Johnson, Clinical Exercise Science
- Project Title: Impact of Using an Assistive Exoskeleton on Reaching and Grasping
- Faculty Advisor: Yi-Ning Wu
Fan Favorite Winner
Catherine Doyle, Doctor of Nursing Practice
- Project Title: A multicomponent quality improvement project to improve HPV vaccine initiation rates at a federally qualified health center
- Faculty Advisor: Lisa Marchand